Mr Verma, also the national general secretary of SP, addressing a press conference here said the party's candidate Rajkumar Chowdhary -- who happens to be his son-in-law -- would make the re-election of AICC president Sonia Gandhi to Lok Sabha, a cumbersome task from Rae Bareli seat.

Mr Chowdhary will file his papers for the LS bypoll on Tuesday next, a day after Ms Gandhi is slated to file her nominations, the SP leader informed.

''He has been an active SP worker and will not only make Ms Gandhi's re-election to parliament difficult, but may also end up upsetting pollsters calculations,'' Mr Verma claimed.

The Samajwadi party will contest the high-profile bypoll on two integral planks of ''anti-farmer policies of UPA government at the centre and the Aligarh Muslim university issue,'' Mr Verma added.

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